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I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.
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In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.
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I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, Didn't you want to get married? Well, sure, but it's not abstract, there has to be someone you want to marry. I'm pretty traditional. Marriage would have to come first, before kids.
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The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
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Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.
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The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.
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I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.
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Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of it that way. I believe that if the right person came into my life that would have been terrific.
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I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.
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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
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It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].
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For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.
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You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
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